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Shawn Conner Posts
A new Michael Chabon short story looks at a lost friendship between two pioneering comics creators.
“It was hurting my face to look interested.” One of many great lines from this funny, funny book.
A kid hangs out in a Parisian railway station.
Enough is enough!
Interview—Miranda July on her new movie The Future The Future is Miranda July‘s follow-up to her 2005 hit Me and You and Everyone We Know.…
Boston Spaceships’ Let It Beard stands up with some of Robert Pollard’s best… of the year.
Ever wonder who’s responsible for high ticket prices?
Emilia Clarke and George R.R. Martin are just… sitting there.
2011 San Diego Comic-Con Day Two recap Morrison, Chopra and Jack Kirby’s Motherbox You know you’ve had an interesting day when it begins with Deepak…
San Diego Comic-Con 2011 recap—European directors, B-movie actresses, and comic book artists It’s a familiar complaint at the San Diego Comic-Con—that the television and movie…
Preview night at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con The biggest news I came across at Preview Night, the kick-off event for the annual San Diego…
A first-timer’s first impressions of the biggest comics convention of them all.
An unmade Green Lantern script by Robert Smigel is genuinely funny.
An afternoon eating and drinking at a food trade show.
Very strong stalker-thriller. Don’t be fooled by the cover.
Eating and drinking our way through Portland, Oregon.
Jennifer Egan on A Visit from the Goon Squad I met Jennifer Egan a year or two before this interview, at a library in Brooklyn.…
The 1981 movie is still a delight 30 years later.
Interview—Mark Yarm, author of Everybody Loves Our Town Mark Yarm‘s new book Everybody Loves Our Town follows the rise and fall of grunge, and how it…